President Donald Trump says he would have won the popular vote nationwide if not for the millions of illegal votes that were cast for his opponent, Hillary Clinton. His spokesman Sean Spicer identified California as one of the “bigger states” that merit a federal probe into election fraud, adding, “That’s where I think we’re gonna look.”

And early Friday, Trump was at it again, tweeting out a reference to a self-described founder of a voter-fraud reporting app: “Look forward to seeing final results of VoteStand. Gregg Phillips and crew say at least 3,000,000 votes were illegal. We must do better!”

So the question is: Since Clinton won California by more than 2.8 million votes, and since Trump says voter fraud cost him that vote, is it conceivable that 3 million illegal immigrants voted in California?

According to the Pew Research Center, there were approximately 11.1 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2014, a total unchanged from 2009 and accounting for 3.5% of the nation’s population.

Of those, how many live in California?

Pew says California has the largest number of illegal immigrants in the United States, with an estimated 2.4 million unauthorized immigrants making up about 6.3 percent of the state’s total population.

How many of those 2.4 million are old enough to vote?

About 241 million – or about 75 percent – of the 319 million people in this country are of voting age. If that proportion is the same in the undocumented immigrant population, it would translate roughly into about 1.8 million (75 percent of 2.4 million) illegal immigrants in California old enough to vote.

Of those 1.8 million illegal immigrants in California old enough to vote, how many of them would have voted — assuming they could get away with it?

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Pew says 57.6 million people, or just 28.5% of estimated eligible voters in the United States, voted in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries last year. Again, assuming that percentage holds in the undocumented immigrant population, it would mean that only 522,000 illegal immigrants in California would have gone to the polls.

Finally, throw in the fact that many immigrants living illegally in California might not want to expose themselves by registering to vote in the first place, and that 522,000 number would shrink dramatically.

But even if all 522,000 illegal immigrants of voting age in California went ahead and voted, that’s still a lot fewer illegal voters in California than the number that would have been needed to throw the popular vote — ILLEGALLY! — to Hillary Clinton.

Patrick May is an award-winning writer for the Bay Area News Group working with the business desk as a general assignment reporter. Over his 34 years in daily newspapers, he has traveled overseas and around the nation, covering wars and natural disasters, writing both breaking news stories and human-interest features. He has won numerous national and regional writing awards during his years as a reporter, 17 of them spent at the Miami Herald.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said there was nothing wrong with the officials expressing “private political views via private text messages.” Strzok, in particular, “did not say anything about Donald Trump that the majority of Americans weren’t also thinking at the same time,” he said.